21-01-2015, 09:30 PM
(21-01-2015, 08:09 PM)Paul Baldwin Wrote: I thought from what you've said it was going to be way worse than that! Are you going to make sure you've prevented the rest of the car from following those bits soon?
I know it's a sleeper but have you considered a half cage? I bet that things no slouch and there's a reason they stopped producing the IIRC?
you never know with metros paul. but with this one been an none sunroof model, its sort of been ok. My gta I tell you the full arse end was rotten to hell, Me and my dad put in a second hand inner arch. We plated up the boot floor on that shell, mind it was a ok job, and it got the car through the mots,
What happens with metros, is that the split at the jacking points so they rot in the joins, or that the sealant dies and the rot sets in.
What I am going to do with this car, when the weather picks up is stone chip the bastard underneath! and reseal the full works again.
fitting a half cage would give the game away tbh, plus this car needs to be practical, as I sometimes take rear passengers too.
It moves when you want it too, with it been light weight you can use the power to weight ratio and not even use the tricky cam system to get away!
I think its due to the fact, there was nt not enough people restoring these, so they dropped making replacement panels, I can only get one performance exhaust for this car now, As they have all been discontinued sadly.
But in very recent years, metro restoration is starting to kick off with the mk 1 and mk2s. Just when the panels have started to dry up.